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  1. Xlucine
    You call that a hillfort? This is a hillfort: One hectare larger I grew up a couple of miles away from it
  2. Xlucine
    Could be a garage-made sten (or similar)
  3. Xlucine
    We cannot allow a drum gap!
  4. Xlucine
    That's going to help snake oil salesmen con the terminally ill, and without actually improving access to potentially useful medicine. The FDA already has a procedure for this, and they approve 99% of requests (https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ExpandedAccessCompassionateUse/default.htm)
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    https://www.livescience.com/62689-otzi-iceman-mummy-heart-disease.html
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    As everyone knows, modern documentaries are trash. Reduced to mere grout between advert breaks, with the same old stock footage repeated a hundred times, and the same old talking heads repeating conclusions that were debunked in the academic sphere decades ago. This thread is for proper documentaries, from back before millennials killed the documentary industry corporate media ruined everything. A time when (especially immediately post war) some knowledge of military affairs could be expected from the audience, and veterans were still around to give interviews. I'll start with The Silent Service: filmed in the late 50's, retelling true tales of heroism in the submarine branch of the US navy during WW2. Season 1 playlist: Season 2 playlist: These are definitely a product of their time (the footage of the Japanese sailors is often entertaining for the wrong reasons), but still worth watching
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    It's a very good panther
  8. Xlucine
    Are you sure? It looks to me like all three slides have their ejection ports biased to the right. There are two different kinds of rear sight visible as well.
  9. Xlucine
    1) How did you get the laws in the first place? 2) How is this different to people claiming you don't need the second amendment, as the government will never need overthrowing?
  10. Xlucine
    Hopefully china agrees with trumps tactics, otherwise NK would end up doing pretty well from the situation. They finally get something they can call a deterrent, and they're back to the old sanctions regime to boot!
  11. Xlucine
    Time for a lynching yet?
  12. Xlucine
    I prefer this modern-shooter-with-WW2-skin approach to trying (and failing) at ULTRA REALISTIC GRITTY BF1. It's a cricket bat, because battlefield wants to copy overwatch characters
  13. Xlucine
    Seems pretty reasonable: Figures for the number of stocks handed in come from this article (at the bottom of the facebook post): https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/so-states-ban-bump-stocks-now-how-do-they-enforce_us_5afef574e4b018ba2f83c189
  14. Xlucine
    "The model 3 that was tested, identical to many model 3s on the road today, isn't representative of our ideal brand new model 3 with non-existent software patches, so here's a site where you can tell everyone how much consumer reports suck"
  15. Xlucine
    I would love for electric motors to result in a return to convertible tanks, like the christie tanks The situation for wheeled vehicles isn't quite comparable, as you're force limited by the tyres. 4 wheel drive helps with this for cars, but with the inefficiency of the transfer cases and such sapping power. For a tank the drive sprocket is essentially geared to the track, so driving the road wheels wouldn't get you any better transfer of force to the ground (as the tracks will slip long before the drive sprocket shears teeth or skips a tooth for properly tensioned track, and all of the weight of the vehicle is already giving you friction to apply motive force). One potential benefit is retaining mobility if you lose a drive sprocket, but I'd imagine it would be rare for something big enough to a) hit the drive sprocket and b) not wreck the engine bay. Mines normally damage the front road wheels, and those can be bypassed with short tracking.
  16. Xlucine
    More weird noises around US embassy staff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44223523
  17. Xlucine
    I hadn't thought of the weight savings in the structure with an evenly distributed load across the wings (avoiding the reinforcing to take the massive moment at the wing root). Other takeaways: - This was meant to crab sideways into a long thin hangar - post-war defence budgets must have been very tight with the number of times that they mention "efficiency" - The fins on top weren't connected as rudders - the rudder was achieved with differential airbrakes in the wingtips. This meant that both rudder pedals were separate, and if you pressed both pedals then you got an airbrake
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    The 4-bar linkage for the step looks cool
  20. Xlucine
    SSGNs aren't going to bridge the gap between the SSBN buys, unless they either buy a shedload of SSGNs or stretch them out to one every five years or so. Other than a longer assembly hall and a few extra tubes, is there really that big a difference between constructing an SSBN and SSN? In other news, Indonesia has won at submarines: http://www.janes.com/article/80159/indonesia-s-second-nagapasa-class-submarine-arrives-home
  21. Xlucine
    Bit early to be flogged as surplus, surely?
  22. Xlucine
    The zone was the original battle royale
  23. Xlucine
    With quick connect couplings (and a big mounting plate) for hydraulically operated mine clearing stuff?
  24. Xlucine
    Raise it too far and the vehicle will roll over on slopes/turns, or not fit in train tunnels/aircraft
  25. Xlucine
    Either they'll need a lot of biodiesel, or they'll revert to horse&cart
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